In the last 7 years, humanity has discovered 43 potentially habitable planets.
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If NASA sent birds into space they would soon die; they need gravity to swallow.
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There is a mass reservoir of water floating in space that is 100,000 times bigger than our sun and holds 140 trillion times more water than all of our oceans.
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It would take more than 150 years to drive a car to the sun.
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The Sun and Moon appear to be the same size because the moon is 400 times smaller than the Sun, but 400 times closer to Earth.
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MDIF, a New York based non-profit organisation, is planning to beam free Wi-Fi to the entire world from space.
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There's a mysterious dwarf planet between Mars and Jupiter called 'Ceres' which has never been visited by spacecraft or photographed in detail, however, Earth-bound telescopes reveal a large bright shining spot on the surface of this planet, the origin and nature of which are unknown.
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